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The Big Lie Misrepresentation in Louisiana “Seal of Confessional” Case

By Jason Hines

The systematic abuse of the free exercise clause strikes again. In this latest episode, according to bloggers at Hot Air and the American Conservative, “[t]he Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that a priest must testify in a case about what he heard in a confessional,” and “Fr. Bayhi will have to go to jail to protect the seal of the confessional.” These pundits can, to some extent, be forgiven for these misleading statements since the Catholic C…

Black Masses Continue to Titillate Conservative Catholics

By Joseph Laycock

…er general manager Jim Brown answered, “We’ve had none.” However, Daniels’ latest announcement to hold a black mass at the Civic Center on September 21 has generated unprecedented attention. Mayor Mick Cornett has already received 450 emails and phone calls opposing the event. Archbishop Paul Coakley has also condemned the event and called on Catholics to protest if it moves forward. Daniels, naturally, has expressed delight that his antics are fi…

It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More

By Daniel Silliman

…des, moral reform movements, and generations of political activism. In his latest book, Matthew Avery Sutton, a professor of history at Washington State University, traces this history of American evangelical apocalypticism from the end of the 19th century to the present day. In the process, he proposes a revised understanding of American evangelicalism, focused on the urgent expectations of the end of human history. If you want to understand mode…

Hide the Religion, Feature the Science: 60 Minutes Drops the Ball on Mindfulness

By jeff wilson

…xible enough or are somehow unavailable for selective appropriation by new promoters and practitioners won’t successfully make the jump into previously untapped cultures. One more essential process is required for a practice to succeed in 21st century capitalist America: it needs to be commodified for the marketplace. Mindfulness comes to us packaged with Colorado retreats for high-powered professionals, training sessions at Google (which gets lot…

Experimental Theater Meets Experimental Faith: The Wooster Group’s “Early Shaker Spirituals”

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

The subject of The Wooster Group’s latest work, Early Shaker Spirituals by the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, may elicit chuckles. After all, the last time the company based shows on recorded music, they came out with “Hula” and “LSD: Only the High Points.” But there’s no one better prepared to interpret the work of the celibate, plain-living religious group than this wildly experimental group of artists. Both are pioneers in their f…

A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

With Netanyahu’s latest victory, the prospects of a peaceful outcome to the Israeli-Palestinian tragedy seem ever more distant. But it’s not like they were ever very close anyhow. While it’s alleged over and over again that Palestinians refuse to recognize Israel’s right to exist, or specifically its right to exist as a Jewish state, there’s a far more damning fact: Israel isn’t just rhetorically denying the right of a Palestinian state to exist….

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…Textiles at the Nevada State Museum, advised Burners looking to sport the latest trend: “boots are in; wings, stilts, crinolines, and ballet tutus are in; nudity and body paint are in; utili kilts are popular, as is wearing underwear as outerwear.” At Burning Man, bodies become works of art alongside giant sculptures and temples adorned with repurposed objects. All of these visual cues work together to signal to Burners that they have entered a r…

What the Numbers Don’t Tell Us: Religion Is a Lived, Shifting Experience

By Kaya Oakes

…und to a religious tradition even while they don’t participate in one, the latest Pew survey results come as no surprise. It’s been clear for years that Mainline Protestant Christianity in America is on the decline. That Catholicism also is in precipitous decline—and the news that the religiously unaffiliated now outnumber Catholics—is perhaps only surprising to those who haven’t attended a Catholic church recently. Today, 13 percent of American a…

Critiques, Questions, and Sauve-qui-Peut: Looking Toward the Future of American Christianit(ies)

By Peter Laarman

The terrain is indeed shifting as the latest Pew survey results suggest, but it’s not a simple matter of secularization or non-affiliation. My own working assumption is that many of those who will no longer answer “Christian” in answer to polling questions will still be drawn to Jesus as an ethical icon, as a theophanous human being, and as a social revolutionary, for a long time to come. They may even see Jesus (quite accurately in my view) as s…

The Avengers, Rogue Roombas, and Robot Accountability

By Hilary Ledwell and Michael Schulson

…d Ex Machina, both centered on the trials and triumphs of AI machines. The latest arrival in this robo-extravaganza is Avengers: Age of Ultron, out last week from Marvel. The narrative is fairly simple: Tech genius Tony Stark (a.k.a. Ironman) builds AI program (Ultron) designed to protect humanity from evil aliens and other threats; Ultron goes rogue; our superheroes step up to the rescue. Among the explosions and flirty banter, The Cubit detected…